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(Source: UN - United Nations ) Somalia: UN deploys first-ever special force to protect staff in Mogadishu The United Nations flag above part of the UN Common Compound, used by UN humanitarian agencies and their partners, in Mogadishu, Somalia in December 2011. Photo: OCHA/Ari Gaitanis 18 May 2014 - A special United Nations defensive military force recommended by...

Mareeg.com- – The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, today received the UN’s top political official, Jeffrey Feltman, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Villa Somalia, as he came to show the UN’s solidarity with the Government and the people of Somalia. Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia and the...

(Source: United Nations Security Council ) Somalia: UN deploys first-ever special force to protect staff in Mogadishu The United Nations flag above part of the UN Common Compound, used by UN humanitarian agencies and their partners, in Mogadishu, Somalia in December 2011. Photo: OCHA/Ari Gaitanis 18 May 2014 - A special United Nations defensive military force recommended by...

(Source: UN - United Nations ) Somalia: UN condemns deadly attack on African Union base African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: AU-UN IST/Stuart Price 26 December 2014 - The UN has condemned an attack on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which resulted in the death of a number of AMISOM soldiers and civilian contractors. In a statement issued by...

18 May 2014  A special United Nations defensive military force recommended by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to protect UN staff and facilities in Mogadishu, was deployed today to shore up the world body's operations in long-troubled Somalia. According to a press release from the UN Assistance Mission, (UNSOM), Nicholas Kay, Mission chief and Special Representative of the...

According to the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), a pickup truck rigged with explosives was detonated outside the gate of the UN Common Compound – in which UN humanitarian and development workers reside and work – around 11:30 in the morning, and attackers then entered on foot. Gunfire and further explosions followed, as staff took refuge in secure areas. The UN...

Somalia: The UN's Joint Resilience Programme in Action

published:18 Aug 2014

Somalia: The UN's Joint Resilience

Somalia: The UN's Joint Resilience Programme in Action

9 July 2014 Dollow, Somalia - Three United Nations emergency directors have called for more sustained funding for Somalia nearly three year after the worst famine hit the Horn of Africa nation.
The e...

UN chief in war-torn Somalia

published:29 Oct 2014

UN chief in war-torn Somalia

UN chief in war-torn Somalia

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Ban Ki-Moon calls for urgent relief to prevent famine in Somalia, and calls on politicians to unite.
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UN representative to Somalia says still long way to go in fight against al-Shabab

published:16 Feb 2015

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UN representative to Somalia says still long way to go in fight against al-Shabab

Al-Shabab fighters were pushed out of Mogadishu, the Somalia's capital, in 2011, but the group has vowed to continue its battle against a Western-backed government which also enjoys broad pan-African ...

The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia. It began in 1991, when a coalition of clan-based armed opposition groups ousted the nation's long-standing military government.

Various factions began competing for influence in the power vacuum that followed, which precipitated an aborted UN peacekeeping attempt in the mid-1990s. A period of decentralization ensued, characterized by a return to customary and religious law in many areas as well as the establishment of autonomous regional governments in the northern part of the country. The early 2000s saw the creation of fledgling interim federal administrations, culminating in the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in 2004. In 2006, the TFG, assisted by Ethiopian troops, assumed control of most of the nation's southern conflict zones from the newly formed Islamic Courts Union (ICU). The ICU subsequently splintered into more radical groups, notably Al-Shabaab, which have since been fighting the Transitional Federal Government and its AMISOM allies for control of the region. In 2011, a coordinated military operation between the Somali military and multinational forces began, which is believed to represent one of the final stages in the war's Islamist insurgency.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Addressing at UN General Assembly | Somalia will be united by 2016,

26 September 2014 - Address by His Excellency
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the
Federal Republic of Somalia at the general debate
Of the 69th Session of the General Assembly of the
United Nations (New York, 24-30 September 2014).
Somalia is at a critical juncture in its efforts to
Achieve security and stability, President Hassan
Told the United Nations General Assembly
Calling for continued support to strengthen Somalia
As a security and ideological “firewall.”
Addressing the 69th high-level debate of the
UN General Assembly, Somali President
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said that Somalia
Will meet the world’s aspirations for a better future,
We have a country that is beginning to unite as a nation,
Behind a vision that will see a federal and united Somalia in 2016.”
He noted that his Federal Government is taking concrete steps
To engage all Somalis, including women and minority groups,
In the political process of nation-building….
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UN representative to Somalia says still long way to go in fight against al-Shabab

Al-Shabab fighters were pushed out of Mogadishu, the Somalia's capital, in 2011, but the group has vowed to continue its battle against a Western-backed government which also enjoys broad pan-African support.
African Union (AU) peacekeepers and the Somali army last year opened a campaign that has forced the al Qaeda-linked fighters out of major strongholds in central and southern regions, but the group continues to mount sporadic attacks.
Nicholas Kay, the UN special representative to Somalia, told Al Jazeera that while Somali and AU forces have made some progress against al-Shabab, but there is still a long way to go to defeat the group.

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Speech of the President of Somalia at the UN General Assembly

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UN Food Agencies in Somalia Promote Eating Fish to Fight Hunger

October 22 2013, DOLOW, SOMALIA -- The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces with Somali authori...

On Somalia, ICP Asks Kay of UN Guards, Somaliland, SEMG Regime Change Letter
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, February 4 -- After UN envoy Nicholas Kay briefed the Security Council about Somalia on February 4, Inner City Press asked him six questions. Video here.
Inner City Press asked Kay about plans to further expand the UNSOM mission outside of Mogadishu. Kay mentioned Kismayo and also a Puntland office. Inner City Press asked him about Somaliland. Kay said he has been in “close contact” with the Somaliland government, calling “keen to see a strengthened engagement of UNSOM in Hargeisa.”
Given previous positions, Inner City Press asked if by this he met an UNSOM office in Somaliland. Kay replied, I think they are happy to have UNSOM staff working in Hargeisa.”
Inner City Press asked about the UN Guards supplied by Uganda, does Kay want more? He said hes asked for 120 more, and even more might to necessary for UNSOM's expansion.
On the Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group, Inner City Press asked about the range of parties listed as violating the sanctions, does UNSOM work on this? Kay replied about helping the Somalia government build capacity to comply, for example with weapons and ammunition controls.
Inner City Press asked Kay about the SEMG “regime change” letter it exclusively exposed, see below. Kay replied quickly, that was the previously SEMG, there is a new SEMG. But now new? We'll see. In any event, Kay's responses were appreciated, including by the new Free UN Coalition for Access.
Back on October 7, 2014 Inner City Press exclusively reported that a member of the UN's Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group Dinesh Mahtani used UN SEMG time and letterhead for unrelated advocacy regarding Eritrea. Mahtani's letter was exclusively put online here by Inner City Press.
The UN on October 27 specified that it was Mahtani's use of the UN letterhead that was not approved. Video here. Tellingly, Mahtani's resignation went unmentioned by wire service write-ups of the SEMG report he was involved in, which Reuters in particular is promoting (while censoring its own anti-Press submissions to the UN, click here for that.)
The silence by Reuters, for which Mahtani used to work, and Agence France Presse continues even as the two UN Security Council Permanent Representatives, one on-camera, have spoken about Mahtani, and UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has done so twice, both times on-camera.
Some social media users from the Horn of Africa citing Mahtani's friends in New York and Nairobi and correcting themselves that Mahtani quit but was not fired are focused on how the letter emerged, projecting their own fixations on Inner City Press (which beyond the Horn reports on Argentina debt, Sri Lankan war crimes, Ebola in West Africa) rather than whether the letter was appropriate.
(The UN Secretariat, even with Ban Ki-moon in the Horn of Africa, is apparently just as distracted: spokesman Dujarric had no comment on the Somali President versus prime minister spat when Inner City Press asked, video here.)
Former SEMG-er Matt Bryden, asked to comment on Mahtani's letter, has instead continued to ask for explanation of the view that by reporting on the flow of lubricants to Eritrea's air force he was micro-managing, or making a telling showing of this UN sanctions apparatus.
The UN seems to hire Western-aligned advocates and then given them no training or guidance. Then when they err, at least in this case, they are disciplined and resign. But what is learned? What is changed? We'll have more on this.

Somalia Army Weapons Sold On Open Market - U.N. Monitors

U.N. investigators said in a new report, Somali army weapons and ammunition continue to be diverted to open markets despite the government's pledges to prevent its arms from leaking and ending up in the hands of Islamist militants. The Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, an 8-member panel of investigators that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions on the two countries, said there had been improvements in government reports on the contents of its armories but suggested the situation remained unsatisfactory. The group said in its confidential 482-page annual report, obtained by Reuters on Friday, "The Federal Government has not imported weapons into Somalia in full compliance with its obligations pursuant to the modification of the arms embargo by the Security Council."
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Burton High Fives - Competitions Start Tomorrow

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